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This view is in Homefield Park north-east of Steyne Gardens, and looks towards the Homefield Road gate; the chimney of No 42, one of the road's 1880s houses, can be seen between the trees and Thurlow

The Canongate was where the canons of Holyrood Abbey entered the Old Town. The tolbooth, with its projecting clock, is one of the most famous landmarks on the Royal Mile and dates from 1591.

It is the county town on the eastern side of the Island of Bute. The pier has changed little from how it appears in this photograph: in the holiday period it is still as busy as it was a century ago.

All the central buildings occupy part of the original market place, which was bounded by the buildings at the far right and left. In the distance is the parish church.

This view shows the bus station that disfigured the open space of Kingsbury until the new bus station was built as part of the Friars Square development in the 1960s.

A port at the mouth of the Arun, and once a Tudor royal shipyard, the old town runs east from the river bank.

It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

A view from the west bank of the River Medway, looking to the medieval bridge and Aylesford. It is superbly proportioned, with one wide central span and three smaller arches on the approach.

Like many other river ports, it lost trade when its waterways could no longer cope with the increasing draughts of cargo ships.

This tranquil scene shows the Gothic-style brick Methodist church of 1878, beyond creeper-clad number 37 in the foreground.

Gently winds the lane down between stone banks towards this picturesque fishing village of whitewashed cottages and bright spring flowers.

Visitors came in increasing numbers after the Snowdon Mountain Railway opened in 1896, which provided easy access to the summit for hundreds of holidaymakers.

This chapter starts in the county town of Northampton – in its superb and large market square.

Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds.

This is a well-kept Garden of Remembrance in the centre of this large village; next door is the County Library.

The tower of St James' Church is still the original Spilsby greenstone, but the rest of the church has been faced with the stronger limestone, hence the different colour.

An excellent view of a working village.

This last can be seen seventy years later in the picture of the railway station (W81011).

This was the older of Whitby's two shopping streets. Puckrin's chemist's shop (the white building on the right) stood for a further forty years.

In 1824 the Royal Manchester Institution was hoping to move into a new headquarters in Mosley Street, and in the accepted practice of the day invited architects to submit their ideas by means of open competition

As well as being in the West Riding, Saddleworth was also in the wapentake of Agbrigg. Wapentake literally means 'show of weapons', and was the old Danish way of voting.

The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town. The two cars, a motor cycle and one bicycle reflect a slower pace of life.

Hazel Grove-cum-Bramhall became a civil parish in 1900; it was made up from the older parishes of Bosden, Norbury, Offerton, Torkington, and Bramhall.

The precursor of Rhyl's amusement arcades, it advertised '... theatre, ballroom, restaurant, waxworks, winter garden, underground canal with gondolas, arcade of shops, zoo, sideshows, all provided on a